Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Spongillida > Family Metschnikowiidae > Genus Metschnikowia

Metschnikowia tuberculata Grimm, 1877

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Protoschmidtia Czerniavsky, 1878

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metschnikowia*	Grimm, 1876	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Metschnikowia intermedia*	Grimm, 1877	synonym

Literature

original description	Grimm, O.A. (1877). Kaspijskoe more i ego fauna.Tetrad 2. [Das Kaspische Meer und seine Fauna]. Trudy Aralo-Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii. Vyp. 2: 1-105, plates I- IX. St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists.
basis of record	Koltun, V.M. (1962). On sponges (Porifera) of the Caspian Sea. Zoologichesky Zhurnal Moskva. 41 10): 1469-1476.
basis of record	Sokolova, A.M.; Palatov, D.M.; Itskovich, V.B. (2020). Genetic analysis confirms the freshwater origin of the endemic Caspian sponges (Demospongiae, Spongillida, Metschnikowiidae). ZooKeys. 915: 1-16.
additional source	Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. (2002 [2004]). Suborder Spongillina subord. nov.: Freshwater sponges. Pp. 921-1020. In Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Pronzato, R.; Manconi, R. (2001). Atlas of European freshwater sponges. Annali Museo Civico Storia Naturale Ferrara. 4: 3-64.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.
additional source	Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. (2002). Suborder Spongillina subord. nov.: Freshwater sponges. Pp. 921-1020. In Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Metschnikowia tuberculata Grimm, 1877. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132892